The Vermont watchman. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1883-1911, 1887-03-02
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the house are unhealthy and communicate
| disease.
A YEARLING calf harnessed to a good
sized hand-sled, and trained so that 1t will
obey every command of its driver, is one of
the attractions at Sioux City, Iowa.
THE great and only Wild West show goes
! to England next month. Guess the Brit
ishers won't talk any more about war when
they see the wild West portrayed.
A PHOTOGRAPHER at Pesth is reported to
| have made picture of a bullet after it had
been fred from rifle and was going at the
rate of more than quarter of mile
second.
Dip you ever chance to hear mother re-
| mark, in speaking of her child, " How like
its motber3" Just at that moment the dear
little thing was making grab for its faith
er's hair Yonkers Statesman.
ANXIOUS skipper, in southern waters:
"The barometer has fallen, sir" I'm
nautical sailoress: Never mind, captain
Don't feel so badly over it, We can get
another when we get to Key West."-1yd
Bis.
A BALTIMORE clergyman told his congre-
CATION that on his visiting an accomplished
| lady at her elegant residence she boosted
that during trip across the ocean she
had won at cards enough to pay her pas
sage
JAMES ARBUcKLE of Missouri City gravely
| insists that he has cat that can sing
Sweet Violets." 1t cannot speak the
words, but can carry the tune so that it
is easily recognized. This cat can also say
yes and " no."
GOVERNOR MOONLIGHT of Wyoming has
appointed his daughter, Miss Nellie, as his
| private secretary, and it is said that the
number of gentlemen callers has largely in
creased. But each one probably prefers to
be met by Moonlight alone.
A RoNDoUT bull pup was put in a room
the other day with five big rats. He shook
the life out of four in a jiffy, but when the
fifth crawled slowly toward him, and &C
tually held up its forepaws as if begging for
its life, the dog could not be induced to
| touch it.
HUGH BARNETT of EdwardspOrt Ind,
was so amused the other day at pun made
by neighbor that he laughed immoderately
and fell dead. The deadly pun, like the
car-stove, must 90. Why don't somebody
invent a safer kind of joke, that goes by
steam and can be turned off when it threat
| ems fatal results?
THE LiUing Church says that there were
few Connecticut women of the last century
who did not keep diary Then it quotes
this from diary of 1890: 1--WE had roast
pork for dinner. and DR.. s., who carved,
held up a rib on his fork and said Here,
ladies, is what Mother Eve was made of
Yes said sister Patty, and it's from very
much the same kind of critter.'"
IT was a little newly-arrived sister that
nurse held in her arms and seven-year old
Robbie stood jealously inspecting her. To
his mind, she looked smaller and less attrac-
| tive than any little sister of the other little
boys that he could remember, and he felt
keen thrill of disappointment So he put
his hands deep in his pockets, like papa,
wrinkled up his nose, and regarding the ac-
pretty near failure. "-DetroH Free Press.
BILL NYE tells of gifted young man just
out of college who felt called upon to start
a paper in booming Western town. Such
noble young martyrs to duty are by no
means rare in this great republics but this
| particular martyr stands out in bold relief
| from the rest as the author of the following
brilliant covey of metaphors found in his
salutatory: "Our voice will ever be heard
in clarion tones putting its shoulder to the
wheel of progress and tramping on oppres-
sion with both feet"
THE recent accident on the Wabash road
occurred in good time to reinforce the objec-
tons to any system of car heating which
necessitates the presence of fire in, under or
anywhere about the cars. In this case the
car was warmed by hot water, which was
heated by small furnace under the car.
The heater exploded, wrecking the car, and
the furnace and the oi-lamps together set
the wreck on fire. Fortunately for the pas
sengers, the train was just entering station,
and so they We're able to escape.
THE present winter has been one of the
most trying in its extreme cold and sudden
changes that has ever been known in the
Northwest That more or less sickness
should result from it is to be expected.
Pulmonary diseases, throat troubles and all
ailments which result from conditions of tenn
perature are to be looked for. Ordinarily,
in the dry atmosphere of our Minnesota
winters, children do not need great deal
of wrapping. Roughing it is an impetus t.
health and strength in everyday life up here
in Minnesota. The healthiest and hardest
children are those for whom storms have nc
terror and who wouldn't give the snap of a
finger whether it was 90 above zero or 90
below. But this season is different from oui
ordinary Minnesota winters. There is more
dampness in the air than usual and more
sudden changes than we have been ac
customed to.-T Paul Globe.
IL his will, which was drawn up in Pitts
burg on Thursday of last week, Ambrose
Retharge, aged tifty-two, after disposng Of
$4,000 in real estate, directs; That my
body be taken to st. MichaePs church and
, after the proper religious services are per
formed, that it be given in charge of my
family, who will convey it to Samson Gre
, matory and there have il burned to ashes
the ashes to be put in "A small bottle anC
given in charge of the German consul il
| this city. This gentleman will then for
!, ward my ashes to the consul in New York
: who will give them in charge of the captain
of the German steamer Elbe, who vii
place them securely in his ship for the ocear
voyage. When at mid-ocean l direct the
captain TO request one of the passengers Il
dress in sea-surfing suit and ascend, with
my ashes in his hand to the top of the top
mast, and after pronouncing last benedic
ton, to extract the contents from the bottl,
and cast them TO the four winds of heaven
: | direct also, while this ceremony is being
! performed, that it be witnessed by all tn,
passengers on board After the Elbe ha
completed her trip and returned again t,
: New York, want full statement on IN,
, death and the scattering of my ashes in mid
ocean published in the Pittsburg papers
, so that my friends in this city shall know
: my burial place"
$ Unlike Any Other.
? 1t is said by those who know that John